GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |
| functional | of, connected with, or being a function |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| upshot | the final result : outcome |
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| cache | a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |